Rebecca & Russell Dobash
Rebecca and Russell Dobash are emeritus professors of Criminology, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK. Together, they have published nine books and numerous articles on violence, gender and crime. Their first book, ‘Violence Against Wives’ (Free Press, 1979) was groundbreaking and helped establish the field of research about violence against women. Their latest book, ‘When Men Murder Women’ (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a comprehensive analyses of intimate partner murders, sexual murders, and the murders of older women that are examined in detail and compared to male-male murders with close attention to the murder event and the life-course of the perpetrators from childhood to the murder event and in prison. The book they are currently working on, When Men Murder Men, will focus on the various contexts and circumstances associated with various types of murders of men.
Soenita Ganpat
Soenita Ganpat is a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Fellow in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University, The United Kingdom. Soenita was one of the founders/researchers of the European Homicide Monitor. She also maintained and further expanded the Dutch Homicide Monitor to provide the most reliable overview of homicide in the Netherlands. Soenita is currently conducting homicide research in the UK and The Netherlands. Her research focuses in particular on homicide, violence, interaction between offender-victim-third parties, personal characteristics of offenders and victims, immediate situational factors (e.g., alcohol use, weapon use, presence of third parties, and time and location) and quantitative research methods.
Jeane Gerard
Jeane Gerard is currently working as a research associate at Coventry University and has been working on homicide (sexual homicide, general homicide and juvenile homicide). Her PhD thesis focused on juvenile homicide using samples from the UK, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
Aisha K. Gill
Aisha Gill is Professor of Criminology at University of Roehampton. Her main areas of interest are health and criminal justice responses to violence against black, minority ethnic and refugee (BMER) women in the UK, Iraqi Kurdistan and India. She is often in the news as a commentator on early/child/forced marriage, violence predicated on 'honour', and sexual violence in South Asian communities. She writes for mainstream popular as well as academic audiences. Her current research interests include domestic violence; rights, law and early/child/forced marriage/female genital mutilation; 'honour' killings and 'honour’-based violence in the South Asian/Kurdish Diaspora and femicide in Iraqi Kurdistan and India; missing women; acid violence; child contact; trafficking; and sexual violence and exploitation. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.
Emma Milne
Emma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, funded by the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE), who are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Emma is due to submit her PhD in June 2017.
Amy Nivette
Amy Nivette is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. From 2012-2015, she was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests broadly concern the sociological study of violence, particularly in relation to the legitimacy of political and social institutions. She is also interested in cross-national patterns of violence, transitional and post-conflict societies, social ecology, analytical sociology, and theoretical integration. She received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2012.
Sara Skott
Sara Skott is doing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. The primary aim of her thesis is to examine the changing patterns and characteristics of homicide in Scotland and to determine the extent to which changes in homicide reflect the changing pattern and characteristics in serious violence. Whether homicide in fact is representative of serious violence in Scotland or not would in turn have important implications for both policy as well as theory.
Rebecca and Russell Dobash are emeritus professors of Criminology, School of Law, University of Manchester, UK. Together, they have published nine books and numerous articles on violence, gender and crime. Their first book, ‘Violence Against Wives’ (Free Press, 1979) was groundbreaking and helped establish the field of research about violence against women. Their latest book, ‘When Men Murder Women’ (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a comprehensive analyses of intimate partner murders, sexual murders, and the murders of older women that are examined in detail and compared to male-male murders with close attention to the murder event and the life-course of the perpetrators from childhood to the murder event and in prison. The book they are currently working on, When Men Murder Men, will focus on the various contexts and circumstances associated with various types of murders of men.
Soenita Ganpat
Soenita Ganpat is a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Fellow in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University, The United Kingdom. Soenita was one of the founders/researchers of the European Homicide Monitor. She also maintained and further expanded the Dutch Homicide Monitor to provide the most reliable overview of homicide in the Netherlands. Soenita is currently conducting homicide research in the UK and The Netherlands. Her research focuses in particular on homicide, violence, interaction between offender-victim-third parties, personal characteristics of offenders and victims, immediate situational factors (e.g., alcohol use, weapon use, presence of third parties, and time and location) and quantitative research methods.
Jeane Gerard
Jeane Gerard is currently working as a research associate at Coventry University and has been working on homicide (sexual homicide, general homicide and juvenile homicide). Her PhD thesis focused on juvenile homicide using samples from the UK, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
Aisha K. Gill
Aisha Gill is Professor of Criminology at University of Roehampton. Her main areas of interest are health and criminal justice responses to violence against black, minority ethnic and refugee (BMER) women in the UK, Iraqi Kurdistan and India. She is often in the news as a commentator on early/child/forced marriage, violence predicated on 'honour', and sexual violence in South Asian communities. She writes for mainstream popular as well as academic audiences. Her current research interests include domestic violence; rights, law and early/child/forced marriage/female genital mutilation; 'honour' killings and 'honour’-based violence in the South Asian/Kurdish Diaspora and femicide in Iraqi Kurdistan and India; missing women; acid violence; child contact; trafficking; and sexual violence and exploitation. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.
Emma Milne
Emma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, funded by the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE), who are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Emma is due to submit her PhD in June 2017.
Amy Nivette
Amy Nivette is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. From 2012-2015, she was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests broadly concern the sociological study of violence, particularly in relation to the legitimacy of political and social institutions. She is also interested in cross-national patterns of violence, transitional and post-conflict societies, social ecology, analytical sociology, and theoretical integration. She received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2012.
Sara Skott
Sara Skott is doing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. The primary aim of her thesis is to examine the changing patterns and characteristics of homicide in Scotland and to determine the extent to which changes in homicide reflect the changing pattern and characteristics in serious violence. Whether homicide in fact is representative of serious violence in Scotland or not would in turn have important implications for both policy as well as theory.